Playable Captchas Are The Future Of Logins

A new way of verifying you're a real person and not a spam machine might eliminate the chore of typing phrases like "beetle sausage" and so on, with a startup looking to gamify the art of verifying you're a human.

The PlayCaptcha system, developed by the UK's Future Ad Labs, replaces the tired old text verification system with a mini game, suggesting it's quicker than squinting at a normal captcha and, in good news for advertisers and brands, provides an exciting new little animated box that grabs the attention of internet users.

Products made and advertised by giant conglomerates Heinz and Reckitt Benckiser are among the first to sign up to these interactive adver-games on their sign-up pages, so look out for them the next time you're voluntarily adding your details to some company's spam database.

The early demo example supplied to us asks you to move the (Heinz branded) salad cream onto the sandwich, a gaming experience that's perhaps not quite up there with the 20-minute epic police chases people are currently enjoying in GTA V, but still. It's quicker and easier than identifying some wonky words. [Gizmodo UK]

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